BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – ELVIS ‘JAM DOWN’ MANNERS, the man arrested on Thursday (Dec. 6) during the People’s Action Movement’s-organised “March To Save Our Land”, was yesterday afternoon (Dec. 7) released on bail after a charge was proffered against him.
According to a press release from the People’s Action Movement (PAM) Public Relations Office, Manners was “interviewed by a Police Corporal in the presence of Inspector Lyndon David and former Parliamentarian and AG Prime Minister Attorney Constance Mitcham at 3:00 p.m. (Friday)”.
It stated that following the interview, he was processed and charged by warrant in the first instance which read “That Elvis Manners being a participant in a Public March held by the People’s Action Movement was found displaying Seditious Publication”.
At approximately 5:45 p.m. yesterday, Manners was placed on Station Bail under the instructions of Chief Magistrate Josephine Mallalieu-Webbe. He was reportedly bailed by Narna Eddy and Jacqueline Rock and is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, January 7, 2013.
On exiting Basseterre Police Station, manners was met by PAM’s Deputy Leader Hon. Eugene Hamilton, the political party’s Deputy Chairman Jonel Powell, party’s Chairman Selwyn Liburd PAM’s former Chairmen and Attorneys-at-Law MacClure ‘Mackie’ Taylor and Chesley Hamilton, as well as a group of friends and party supporters, according to the release.
Information reaching SKNVibes indicated that while on Thursday’s march, Manners was allegedly bearing a placard with a masked man pointing a firearm at an image supposedly representing the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas.
This morning, efforts to contact the Police Press and Public Relations Officer, Inspector Lyndon David, for a comment on the matter were futile.
